Associated PressMarch 17, 2022
3min0
In February, the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%. Meanwhile, inflation has jumped 7.9% over the last year.
Tag: joblessness
Associated PressMarch 17, 2022
Marc YachtAugust 26, 20155min238
Poverty’s narrow definition relates to income and consumption but a much broader meaning is necessary to understand America’s poor. Federal guidelines qualify individuals and families by addressing income, but don’t provide an accurate depiction of needy families and their living conditions. The better understanding of the poor must look beyond income and at the larger […]
Gary FineoutFebruary 20, 2015
6min298
At a rural crossroads in Northwest Florida, the state may encounter a tough choice in its ongoing debate over the future of gambling. It’s here — amid mobile homes, cow pastures and cotton fields near the Alabama-Florida line — that a small, Alabama-based Indian tribe wants to expand its gambling operations into the Sunshine State. Rebuffed […]